diff --git a/debian/patches/0001-Update-tests-to-use-python3-instead-of-python.patch b/debian/patches/0001-Update-tests-to-use-python3-instead-of-python.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc89385
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/0001-Update-tests-to-use-python3-instead-of-python.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+From: Nicolas Dandrimont <olasd@debian.org>
+Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:20:06 +0200
+Subject: Update tests to use python3 instead of python
+
+---
+ tests/executors/test_executor.py      | 16 ++++++++--------
+ tests/executors/test_executor_kill.py |  4 ++--
+ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tests/executors/test_executor.py b/tests/executors/test_executor.py
+index 8500e4b..4081a22 100644
+--- a/tests/executors/test_executor.py
++++ b/tests/executors/test_executor.py
+@@ -229,14 +229,14 @@ def test_executor_methods_returning_self():
+ def test_mirakuru_cleanup():
+     """Test if cleanup_subprocesses is fired correctly on python exit."""
+     cmd = f'''
+-        python -c 'from mirakuru import SimpleExecutor;
+-                   from time import sleep;
+-                   import gc;
+-                   gc.disable();
+-                   ex = SimpleExecutor(
+-                       ("python", "{SAMPLE_DAEMON_PATH}")).start();
+-                   sleep(1);
+-                  '
++        python3 -c 'from mirakuru import SimpleExecutor;
++                    from time import sleep;
++                    import gc;
++                    gc.disable();
++                    ex = SimpleExecutor(
++                        ("python3", "{SAMPLE_DAEMON_PATH}")).start();
++                    sleep(1);
++                   '
+     '''
+     check_output(shlex.split(cmd.replace('\n', '')))
+     assert SAMPLE_DAEMON_PATH not in ps_aux()
+diff --git a/tests/executors/test_executor_kill.py b/tests/executors/test_executor_kill.py
+index ce5f42e..3e9dc0f 100644
+--- a/tests/executors/test_executor_kill.py
++++ b/tests/executors/test_executor_kill.py
+@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def test_kill_custom_signal_kill():
+ 
+ def test_already_closed():
+     """Check that the executor cleans after itself after it exited earlier."""
+-    with SimpleExecutor('python') as executor:
++    with SimpleExecutor('python3') as executor:
+         assert executor.running()
+         os.killpg(executor.process.pid, SIGKILL)
+ 
+@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def test_daemons_killing():
+     change the process group ID. This test verifies that daemon process
+     is killed after executor's kill().
+     """
+-    executor = SimpleExecutor(('python', SAMPLE_DAEMON_PATH), shell=True)
++    executor = SimpleExecutor(('python3', SAMPLE_DAEMON_PATH), shell=True)
+     executor.start()
+     time.sleep(2)
+     assert executor.running() is not True, \
diff --git a/debian/patches/series b/debian/patches/series
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9dfe109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0001-Update-tests-to-use-python3-instead-of-python.patch